Inspirational quotes are the noteworthy
thoughts of those who have preceded us along the path of life...the
sometimes subtle bread crumb trails left behind to lead us to
the meaningful ideas that they had discovered along their way.

These inspirational quotes are specially
selected gems of philosophy and wisdom which, when taken to heart
and acted upon, can lead to the kind of personal peace and tranquility
that can only be found along the path less traveled. New quotes
will be posted here at the top for a while before being listed
with the main group of quotations just beyond the reflecting
pool.

The path awaits, and we hope you
will enjoy your journey.

Think the thoughts and see the sights
along the way...

and delight in the anticipation of
what may lie ahead.

"Now and then it's good to pause
in our pursuitof happiness

and just be happy."

Guillaume Apollinaire

"All shadows whisper of the
sun."
Emanuel Carnevali

"Long live the sun which gives
us such beautiful color."
Paul Cézanne

"You'll never find rainbows
if you're looking down."

Charlie Chaplin

"An inch of time on the sundial
is worth more than a foot of jade."

Confucius

"You can't make up time; you
can only use what's left, better."
Oscar G. Darlington

"A man who dares waste one hour
of time

has not discovered the value of life."

Charles Darwin

"A man is what he thinks about
all day long."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Hide not your talents. They
for use were made.

What's a sundial in the shade?"

Benjamin Franklin

"He that is busy is tempted
by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion."

Thomas Fuller

"I like the dreams of the future
better than the history of the past."

Patrick Henry

"If you want to make the world
a better place,

take a look at yourself and then
make a change."

Sung by Michael Jackson
Written by Glen Ballard and Siedah Garrett

"Time is the wisest counselor."
Pericles

"You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself any direction
you choose."

Dr. Seuss

"We are the music makers, and
we are the dreamers of dreams..."

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

"How far that little candle
throws his beams!

So shines a good deed in a naughty
world."

William Shakespeare

"Take care of each other."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"The mind is sharper and keener
in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude.

Be alone - that is the secret of
invention;

be alone, that is when ideas are
born."

Nikola Tesla

"Dreams come true. Without that
possibility,

nature would not incite us to have
them."

John Updike

"The best way to make your dreams
come true is to wake up."

Paul Valery

"Give me the splendid silent
sun with all his beams full-dazzling."
Walt Whitman

"Breathe. Let go. And remind
yourself that this very moment

is the only one you know you have
for sure."

Oprah Winfrey

"The present is the ever moving
shadow that divides

yesterday from tomorrow. In that
lies hope."

Frank Lloyd Wright"

"Sometimes you have to take
the leap,

and build your wings on the way down."

Kobi Yamada

"Far away in the sunshine are
my highest aspirations.

I may not reach them,but I can see the beauty, believe in them,

and try to follow where they lead."

Louisa May Alcott

"The man who has no imagination
has no wings."
Muhammad Ali

"If you have the will to win,
you have achieved half your success;

if you don't, you have achieved half
your failure."

David Ambrose

"Some of the most wonderful
peopleare the ones who don't fit into
boxes."
Tori Amos

"Now, after years of observation
and enough courage to admit

whatI have
observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord;

to plant loyalty and honesty if I
want to avoid betrayal and lies."
Maya Angelou

"Give me a firm place to stand,
and I will move the earth."

Archimedes

"I count him braver who conquers
his desiresthan him

who conquers his enemies;

for the hardest victory is the victory
over self."
Aristotle

"Goodness does not consist in
greatness,but greatness in goodness."
Athenaeus

"Teach us...that we may feel
the importance of every day,

of every hour, as it passes."
Jane Austen

"Imagination is the highest
kite one can fly."

Lauren Bacall

"Each day is a journey; and
the journey itself is home."
Basho

"Genius is childhood recaptured
at will."

Baudelaire

"The best way to predict the
future is to create it."

Sophia Bedford-Pierce

"We have first raised a dust
and then complain we cannot see."
George Berkeley

"Whenever you see darkness,
there is extraordinary opportunity

for the light to burn brighter."
Bono

"Don't go through life, grow
through life."
Eric Butterworth

"All you need within you is
waiting to unfold and reveal itself."
Eileen Caddy

"A man without a goal is like
a ship without a rudder."
Thomas Carlyle

"Time and reflection change
the sight little by little

'till we come to understand."

Paul Cézanne

"Advice is like snow; the softer
it falls the longer it dwells upon,

and the deeper it sinks into the
mind."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"To be wronged is nothing unless
you continue to remember it."

Confucius

"When you meet someone better
than yourself,

turn your thoughts to becoming his
equal.

When you meet someone not as good
as you are,

look within and examine your own
self."
Confucius

"The happiest people spend much
time in a state of flow,the state in
which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else
seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people
will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it."
Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi

"Be less curious about people
and more curious about ideas."

Marie Curie

"And above all, watch with glittering
eyes the whole world around you

because the greatest secrets are
always hidden in the most unlikely places.